Missed opportunity

Today my van was assigned to Cheseboro Canyon for the hike.  This is the hike that I did last week when it was raining and muddy.  After sliding around for several steps in the mud, I went back and walked on the pavement.

It didn't take long for the mud to dry out and it was a pleasant hike.  The scenery is beautiful because of the rolling hills.  I think that I've mentioned before that the hikes are owned and operated by the California Department of Parks and Recreation.  At the end of my hike today, a couple of park rangers or staff members came through the trail driving an SUV.  I didn't pay attention to the specifics of the vehicle, so I don't know that kind of SUV is was, all I know is that it was white.

After the SUV passed, I noticed there were other people coming the other way, but I didn't think anything about it.  The hiking guide knew a couple of them by name and after they passed, she told me they are members of greenpeace and hike out here all of the time.

I put two and two together and started laughing.  The entire greenpeace movement is based on abolishing evil SUVs from the planet, but here they were passing an SUV on the hike and didn't do anything.  Then I realized that it is their state tax money that paid for that SUV.

If I would have known about this before they passed the SUV, I would have taken a picture of greenpeace leftist walking past an SUV without doing anything while their entire mission is to abolish the SUV.  And this is the missed opportunity.

However, the hike was still beautiful.  Here is a picture of the group at the start of the hike and some pictures of the hills.

The afternoon classes are ball works, something in the pool, then treading.  The other day during cardio intervals, I was on the arc trainer machine.  For the sprints, I challenged everyone else in the arc trainers to put the machine on max resistance and max incline.  Most of them did accept the challenge.

Today I get in the gym for treading and notice there were only two other people on the arc trainers.  I wonder if I scared everyone away.

Closing thought for the day:  Looking back on yesterday, I think my problem was not hitting wall, but instead I was dehydrated.  I've been on electrolytes since dinner last night and today my body was better.  I slightly backed off the intensity in the classes today, but now I think I'm back to normal.  Tomorrow morning will be Solstice Canyon for the hike and if there's any energy left in me in the afternoon, I'll leave it all on the dance floor in cardio disco.